Flannery O'Connor

“For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

"Per me sono la nascita verginale, l'Incarnazione, la resurrezione le vere leggi della carne e del fisico. Morte, decadimento, distruzione sono la sospensione di queste leggi. Rimango sempre meravigliata dall'enfasi che la Chiese mette sul corpo. Non e' l'anima, essa dice, che risorgera' ma il corpo, g;orificato." (mia traduzione)

「私にとって、少女降誕、受肉、復活こそが、肉体と物理の法則である。死、腐敗、破壊はその法則の暫定的な保留である。教会が身体についてどれほど強調しているかをいつも驚きます。復活するのは霊魂ではなく、栄光を受けた身体である。」（私訳）

Il mondo e' un libro/The world is a book

"Il mondo è un libro, e quelli che non viaggiano ne leggono solo una pagina."
"Orbis terrarum liber est, et illi qui non commeant modo unam paginam legunt"
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

attribuito a S. Agostino/attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo

As quoted in "Select Proverbs of All Nations" by "Thomas Fielding" (John Wade), 1824, p. 216.

Se non ci fosse Dio non ci sarebbero gli atei. Chesterton

Atheism is the supreme example of a simple faith. ... The truth is that the atmosphere of excitement by which the atheist lives, is an atmosphere of thrilled and shuttering theism, and not of atheism at all; it is an atmosphere of defiance and not of denial. Irreverence is a very servile parasite of reverence; and has starved with its starving lord. After this first fuss about the merely aesthetic effect of blasphemy, the whole thing vanishes into its own void. If there were not God, there would be no atheists. ("Where All Roads Lead," Collected Works, vol. 3 [San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990] 37-38).

The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. “

The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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— Oscar Wilde

"La chiesa cattolica e' per i santi e i peccatori; per le brave persone va bene anche la Chiesa anglicana"


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